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(05/20/14 10:40pm)
Staying in hostels in Europe this past summer, I had the unique privilege of meeting young people from many different countries. My inability to speak their native languages and their flawless mastery of English were sources of embarrassment, but I could always rely on one topic to send them into shock: the costs of higher education.
(05/05/14 10:34pm)
Walking across the Green toward Collis, I feel my egalitarian heart swell at the sight of the flapping rainbow stripes of the Pride flag. Such a beautiful sight would not have been possible just one generation ago. Since the ascendance of the then-nascent movement from draconian anti-LGBTQ laws and the Stonewall riots, we have come a long way as a country. From time to time, it’s rejuvenating to acknowledge the progress that we’ve made and reinvigorating to know that we can continue to change.
(04/21/14 10:33pm)
Two weeks ago, following the occupation of College President Phil Hanlon’s office, omniscient TV personality Bill O’Reilly weighed in on the purported crisis caused by the anti-authoritarian left. Tracing this movement back to the late 1960s and protests against the Vietnam War that created a nascent “culture based on anti-authority,” O’Reilly claimed that “we have a new anti-authority movement, and it has been created by the grievance industry which President Obama and the Democratic Party have used very effectively to assume and maintain power.”
(04/08/14 11:05pm)
It was like the floodgates had opened, a wave of dependency on the Greek system rushing forth. Only after having experienced both the freshman ban from fraternities and the ban’s sudden lift could I see the degree to which fraternities dominate social life at Dartmouth.
(03/25/14 9:07pm)
Like a lot of other college kids, I have nervously begun to glance at the calendar and wonder about my summer plans. Like even more college kids, I’ve scanned for opportunities to earn some extra cash. That’s where the search for a job ends and the hunt for an internship begins: for an increasing number of college students and graduates, unpaid internships are the only chance to get their feet wet in the job market. Of the 63 percent of students who participate in an internship at some point in college, the Boston Globe reported anywhere between one-third and one-half of their internships are unpaid. However, unpaid internships harm our economy and effectively constitute a race to the bottom.
(03/03/14 10:58pm)
As you may have heard, applications for the Class of 2018 are strikingly low. The news has reverberated far and wide as commentators — some qualified, and some less so — speculate about the 14 percent drop in applications. The administration, quick to put its spin on the situation, pointed to uncontrollable national demographic shifts as the cause. A College press release cited the smaller number of students applying to college to account for the change. The decline in applicants has coincided with recent negative publicity. This media coverage of Dartmouth, not demographic change, tuition or AP tests, has been the driving factor behind this shift.
(02/26/14 12:05am)
I feel obligated to begin with a disclaimer: I do not know what it feels like to be black, Latino or Latina, Native American or Asian. I do not know what it feels like to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. I do not to know what it feels like to be a woman. I do not know what it feels like to be financially underprivileged. For all my life, I have been a straight, white, middle-class male.
(02/19/14 9:51pm)
“I hear Goldman is really looking for a bunch of classics majors to pay some six-figure starting salaries to this year,” I often joke to a friend who considers majoring in that field. While I make these comments facetiously, I should reconsider them, especially after Republican governors’ onslaught against a number of liberal arts degrees.
(02/05/14 10:49pm)
At one telling point during the question-and-answer session that followed the recent debate between Dinesh D’Souza ’83 and Bill Ayers, a Korean student criticized D’Souza for finding a silver lining in imperialism, colonialism and slavery. As the student spoke, a woman in the crowd yelled, “Go back to Korea!”
(01/21/14 12:45am)
Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), famously the first congressperson to voluntarily come out as gay, came out for a second time, but only after he no longer held public office. This second time, however, he said he was an atheist. Frank’s hesitation points to the long-untapped potential for the political mobilization of the irreligious. Atheists, agnostics and non-belivers, while yet to experience the same kind of political and social awakening as other oppressed groups, can potentially create a formidable bloc in American politics.